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.'c' -T i I ?PORT? A'i)I •FRENCH JlOTCEfj'h Vv T V- ATiTLTH'irs—N rv/ P»;o- R<JM:T) FIACK' (>' !T: R. AT PAISLEY—A LU.S TO Another boxing victory was obtained by Trance ov.-r ihe Cnicnl I:i::(:(;;il at Cardiff oil SATURDAY night, who;- STIVER of tl", fastest battles ever roeji hi ih. rii: Chants-. Ledcux, i ba::ta:n chn'np?in of K )". de- txx n t: !:¡], t- ?J:]'='l' \1': ,¡¡'(}:I,: Beynon rouht wonderfully for ,yea rounds. and many times the men behind Ledoux 'looked with anxious eyes across the ring at the novel sight of their little hurricane being rushed from one place to another. The -end came with dramatic sad-derm-oss, for in the interval between rounds seven and <. /h" Bey- JlOlt was found to be LiuuS, and his seconds thrcv. in the sponge. Willie Farrell. th-e aeior-box-r, who recently clefeat'd Jack Ward (Gloucester), has issi^d a. challenge to the world at gt. nIb.. i¡he light- weight limit, for £ 200 a-sule, for a contest under championship conditions. Payroll's chall enge is issued to white or black boxers. He is ready to meet Freddv Welsh on his re- turn to this oountry. In the meantime he will accept the first who puts up a substantial deposit. Rain, snow, and sleet fell in Edinburgh on Saturday, and rendered the Powderhall track -very heavy. A surpri • was provided in the third heat of the nn, -mile handicap, when Scott, of AjinarJale, favourite for the event outright, was beaten by T. Hughes, of Rose- -well, who showed such time (lmin. 56sec.) as to suggest the handicap was at his mercy. At the same time he had had a punishing race, and the question was whether he would conn- again. Evens could be had regarding his chance, but he ran a well-judged race and -won by six yards from Walker, an unlucky runner, seeing that this is his second failure in a big half-mile. A movement is being promoted by a number of 'Paisley gentlenx-n witit K vi ew to form è :new racecourse on lands to the west of Pai-s- Jey, near Liriwood. A provisional plan has been prepared, says the Sportsman, showing ia long racing track having a six-furlong straight. As the district has cxc-ellent train and car facilities the promoters are confident that the scheme would be a financial success. The proposal is ihat the meeting should be laeld as an auxilia.ry to the Ayr August fix- ture. The new movement is being mooted apart altogether from the recent overtures by the Town Council to the Jockey Club, asking what improvements would be required by that 3body for a renewal of the licence for the old course at St. James's Park. The site of the proposed new course is on land owned by the- Duke of AbeTcorn. By the death of Mr. Rhodes H. Cobb, oars- manship has lost one of its most enthusiastic supporters. Mr. Cobb, who was in his eighty- tninth year, was in 1858 one of the founders of the Kingston Rowing Club, of which lie was the first vice-president, an office that he held until 1883, since when he had been president. He was himself a keen oarsman, as were his sons, and the third generation is well repre- sented by his grandson, Mr. Rhodes VS. Cobb, -whose name has lately become prominent in -the rowing world. Despite some upsets of form in the holiday matches, the positions of the clubs in the three football leagues have not undergone much change. Blackburn Rovers have in- creased their lead slightly in the First Division; Hull City and Woolwich have gone above Notts County in the Second Division; while Swindon Town have well maintained their advantage in the Southern League. On Saturday Blackburn Rovers drew at Liver- pool in a heavy scoring match, Manchester United winning. Sunderland and Bolton Wanderers, however, were defeated. The match between Chelsea and Tottenham Hot- spur, at Tottenham, was won by the former lay two goals to one. Chelsea thus avenged their defeat by the Hotspur early in the season. Nothing more remarkable occurred than the victory of Preston North End over Ever- ton. On the two preceding days North End had twice lost to Blackburn Rovers, having 10 goals to 1 scored against them, whereas Everton, after whining at Old Trafford with ten men, had put on 5 to 0 against Man- chester United in the return. Yet at Deep- dale Preston North End managed to prevail. 1 goal in a hard match enabling them to leave the field conquerors. Despite this reverse, Everton have risen half-way up the table of results, but it is noteworthy that two Lanca- shire clubs figure at the bottom as well as at the top of the League. The largest crowd of the afternoon — 50,000 — saw the game at Liverpool, and at Whit-e Hart-lane equal in- terest centred in the meeting of Tottenham Hotspur with Chelsea, who in the presence of nearly 40,000 people had the satisfaction of reversing the adverse verdict which gave them such an unfavourable start to the season at Stamford Bridge. The last of the three da.ys' Christmas foot- ball among the clubs of the Second Division of the League was, like that of Boxing Day, noteworthy for the number of victories gained by teams playing at home. No fewer than seven of those who enjoyed advantage of ground were successful; Glossop and HuH City could only draw. whiJe to Woolwich Arsenal feU the distinction of being the only visiting side to win. Thies triumph of the North London club, on the Filbert-street ground at Leicester, crowned a most .success- ful three days. On Christmas Da.y they won at Bradford, followed that by beating Brad- ford in the return the following afternoon at Highbury; and, as already observed, wound -up with another away victory over Leicester jFo«.e. No other club in the competition can point to such a record. Hull City and Leeds City, who had won their first two games, onlv •drawing on Saturday—Hull at home with Blackpool, and I.^eds at Glossop. Two clubs, in Huddersfii'd Town and Leicester Fc-sse, lost all three holiday engagements. The amateur golf championship of India lias again been won by a Scotsman. Mr. G. C. Wliigham, who in the final over thirh-six I holes at Calcutta on Sunday defeated Mr. Tucker by* 11 up and 10 to play. This is Mf. Whigham's first victory ill the event, although -on 1911 he was only beaten oil the last nrren 4n the final by Mr. J. D. GatheralJ. Almost -every championship since its institution in 1892 has-been won by Scotsmen, the only Eng- lishman to secure the honour being Mr. B. A. Collins in 1S04. Mr. Jay Gould, the amateur tennis cham- pion of America, has i: sued a challenge to O. E. Covey, the world's champion. The, challenge has been accepted, and the match -will, it is understood, be played at Phila- delphia in March. In the Southern League, Swindon gained an easy victory over West Ham United, and -as the Crystal Palace could do no better than draw at Portsmouth the Wiltshire team still liolds a pronounced lead in the table. Mi waJI and Southend United both won their matches by a solitary goal, the former beat- ing Reading and Southend beating Watford. Always a popular fixture, the meeting of Swindon and West Ham United on the Swindon ground attracted fully 11,000 spectators. Unhappily, the match did not pass off without a regrettable incident, Holland, one of the Swindon forwards, and Brandon, the United's back, being ordered off the field. In the Second Division it may be noted that Woolwich Arsenal arc giving promise of returning to the First Division. They gained their th!r(l i,icef"ss ill a,, their third success in as many days. Leicester Fosse, oil 'tlipit. own. ground, yielding them both points. Fulbam defeated Clapton Orieie at Craven Cottage, in a vigorous game, bj two goals to !ii). At Blavkrnore, Essex, a village seven mile. from a railway, an inquest was held on Monday iou Annie Miiynard. of lied Rjse Farm. whe was found drowned in a pond. In a letter tJ lur sister she wrote that she cemJd nUl g¡¡;)(; the lonely coynir/ life.

WORK ANT) "WORKERS. ENC INKER APPRENTICES AND STUIKEK—MASTER BTELBTSKS' PROPOSALS TO UNIONS—ADMIR- ALTY A') DOCKYARD MEN — THE LEEDS STRIKB— -BOILER -MAKBRS AND SHIPWRIGHTS No POLIO; UNION—MINERS' LIVE-1)AS WEEK. Acting on in«truetio*is, sa y"> La b.oltr eor- wsp-c-ndent. from the head office, each dis- trict of Amalgamated Society of Engi- neers ia taking steps to deal with tlw ap- prentice question, which has already become a serious -source of trouble. In spite of re- pealed insistence by the eniployer-i; on the p-rificiple that apprentices are to be treaied as non-combatants in industrial warfare, th-e society intends to force them all into the union, and subsequently will attempt to secure rigid restriction, of the number. This department will have an important bearing on future displitei in the industry, beeau-e in the past the fact, that apprentices were ontside the union haft enabled them to he n.sed in the engineering shop? and shipyards to complete urgent work ori lock-outs were declared. Similar action is to be taken by ajl unions covering the. engi- neering and shipbuildtng industries, and fears are entertained that trouble may arise in view of the determination of the employers to resist the attempt, to oi'gani-e apprentices or to limit the number to. be employed. The Master Builders' Conference has de- llvered ts ultimatum, failing acceptance of 'which they threaten lock-out, though not in so many words. The employers' proposals to the Trade Unions are as follow: 1. The return to work of all men to jobs where strikes exist immediately afte;r the holidays. 2. That a guarantee tru-st fund should be formed by deposits by both sides, to lie available for the purpose of paying penal- ties for strikes cr lock-outs in violation of the working rules. 3. That a statement in writing be sent to this Association that Vonr Society depre- cates the strikes without- the matters in dis- pute being brought before, the Conciliation Board, and that you will undertake to penalise your individual members in case of the non-observance of the rules. 4. That an undertaking he given that no attempt will be made oin- any of the jobs of members of this Association to carry out card inspections. 5. That a reply must be in the hands of this Association on or before January 5th, 1914, stating as to whether or not your Executive Committee accepts the principle involved in the foregoing proposals. It is unlikely that anything drastic will be done until the terms of these proposals have received a good deal of discussion. More trouble for the Admiralty with the dockyard workmen is looming ahead. The new regulations for promotion to the estab- lishment are not liked, and the men have sent strongly-worded protests against them to Whitehall. The truth, says the Observer, ia that the trades union grip upon the dock- yards is getting firmer. Years ago the Ad- miralty wrenched it violently and rather con- temptuously away. But it' has got fixed on again, this time for good. Nothing really wiH content the men until they get plSced on the same footing in the matter of wages as are the workmen in private shipyards. The Midlothian and Haddingtonshire miners' delegates met in conference at Dal- keith on Saturday. The reports presented showed that the coal trade continued pros- perous, and that nearly 90 per cent. of the colliery workmen were obtaining the full maximum of employment, eleven days per fortnight. A great demonstration was held on Sunday morning on Holbeck Moor, Leeds, at which the chief speaker was Mr. Will Thorne, M.P. Here it was announced that the gas-workers who applied the previous day for reinstate- ment at the new Wortley works to the num- ',t? y Works to the !iiii!i- ber of several hundreds had all withdrawn their applications, and, further, that the men of the sanitary department who had expressed their willingness to return to duty had all been brought out on strike again. It was claimed that the strikers had the support of 38.000 other trade unionists in the city, and that as a result of this the strike pay of 12s. 6d. per man per week would shortly be advanced to £ 1. The Leeds strike has provided the older school of trade unionists with an object lesson, of which much is certain to be made in future trade union controversy, in regard to the fallacies of Syndicalist teaching, says the London correspondent of the Yorkshire Pout. It is realised that the method of labour organisation by crafts or trades, instead of hy groups of trades or industries, is still the most. effective. The Syndicalists are all for making a strike as general as possible, and calling out, aJl men in a given industry. To the older school of leaders the disadvantage of this policy is that conflicting interests weaken the body of strikers, the representatives of each particular trade looking at the questions involved from their own particular stand- point, and thus hindering unity of action. IV-he--e the dispute is confined to one trade, on the old trade-union lines, interests are the same, and it i6 much easier to keep the men together. With a mixed army of workers, con- cessions offered from time to time may detach sections from the strike. The representatives of the Boiler Makers' Society and the Shipwrights' Association have agreed to the draft scheme for the closer unity of the two organisations. This scheme will be further considered at a full meeting of representatives of both societies early this month, when there is every reason to believe that the agreement will be ratified. Should that be so, comments L'eynohl* Newspaper. it will then be placed before the members of both societies for adoption. While the scheme does not provide for a complete amalgamation,, the proposals are such as will enable the two societies to act jointly on all trade questions. The Boilers Makers have a membership of 36,916 and accumulated funds amounting to £:;61,056. the Shipwright: Association a membership of 26,624 and accumulated funds of £ 131,584. The attempt to form a police union in London has failed. The promoters held another meeting in Trafalgar-square on Sunday afternoon, but the audience, says the Daily Mail, was small and indifferent. The Police Union banner had disappeared, and its place was taken by a standard of the" John Syme League," and the chairman was at some pains to explain that the meeting had not been called by the Police Union. The Police Ifaritw also announces the failure of their attempt to fonu a police federation. "We issued soma 21,000 forms, and only a few over 100 of our readers, who may be cstimated at 40,000 or more, have expressed their desire to form such an association. We are returning the shillings to those who have subscribed." The Commis- sioner of Police has, it will be recalled, notified the force that to join a union was contrary to the regulations and might email dismissal. The official figures in the card vote of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, on the proposal to adopt a working policy of five days Per week throughout the British coal- field, were issued on Saturday as follows: In j favour—Notts, 28,000; Derbyshire, 33,000; Leicester, 7,000; Cum-berlan-d, 6,000; Brisi.e.1, 2,000; North Wales, 10,000; Northumber- land, 38,000; Scotland, 75,000; Durham, 99,000; and Forest of Dean, 3,000. Total, 301,000. Againist—Yorkshire, 90,000; Lanca- shire, 70,000; Midland Federation, 50,000; South Wales, 103,000; Cleveland, 9,000; and South DeTby, 4,000. Total, 326,000. A new Labour paper, The Federationitt, has been issued as the official organ of the General Federation of Trades Unions, the Executive of which believed that the time has row arrived when the work of that body should be made better known. The first iditorial discusses "efficient industrial organi- sation," and urges the necessity of combina- Lion" to deal properly with the employees."

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I CHIPS OF NEWS. Air. Rhodes Cobb, who died at Kingston or; Saturday, aged mc of t-nc- founders of the Kingston flowing Club. C?KH: Jweph Watson, R.C., d.ed, aged ninety-three years, at St. Catherine's Domini- can Com-ent, Sbieldhdd, NewctMtIo-on Tyne, on Saturday.' Frederick Annerdale listings Snow? nine teen. who was tnvjng' :n Dover with h. was dead at hntel on Satur- day. havinir taken, cyanide of potassium. lie had been over-study in; recently. The funeral of Sir James John Trevor Lw, rence, Bart.. the well known horticulturist, took place at Mickleham on Saturday.- A large congregation attended a memorial service at Ilolv Trinity Church. Kensington Gore. The death is announced of Admiral Sholto Douglas, C.B., which- occurred at Southse11 on Saturday. Admiral Douglas entered the Royal Navy in 1847 at the age of fourteen. He saw service during the Kaffir and Burmese Wars. According to the Trilmna, the Italian Govern- ment has declared itself in favour of Scutari as the provisional capital of the new Albanian Stat. A disastrous fire, resulting in damage esti- mated at £25,000, has occurred at the Hackiv Brewery, in Munich. Five firemen were injured. The German Emperor has sanctioned the as- signment of Jt1,250 from the Secret Service Fund to the ethnologist, IIerr Leo Frobenius, to enable him to continue his exploration work in Central Africa The French airman Legagneux, at Cannes, established a new altitude record on Saturday attaining a height of 6,100 metres. The death was announced at Signiaringen on Saturday of the Dowager Princes-s Leopold of Hohenzollern, nee the Infanta Antonia of Pcr- tugal. Alderman Matthew- Ballantyne, D.L., an ex- Mayor of Londonderry and a large grain mi!- ler. died on Saturday in Dublin, where he had gone to be operated upon. Mr. Isaac Cohen, a wealthy master tailor, was run over and killed by a motor-omnibus in the East End on Saturday. According to a Tangier telegram, the noto- rious Moorish agitator, El Hiba. is reported to have been repulsed after heavy fighting. Elisabeth Webster, fifty-three, of Stratford, who was found on the pavement- bleeding from a wound in the head, and said she had been > knocked down by a tramcar, died in the West Ham Hospital on Saturday. While working on Rochester Bridge, Harry Cuckow, of Chatham, overbalanced and feD into the Medwav. The strong tide carried him some distance, and he was unconscious when rescued, but recovered under medical treatment- Albert John Gale, secretary of a local slate club, has been remanded at Bournemouth charged with embezzling t48, the club's' money. When he was arrested lie said: "If they had waited the money would have been repaid, but now they will not get a cent." The money had been used to pay debts. Alfred Jones, a weaver, was at Bacup sen- tenced to three month, hard labour for desert- ing his two young children in April, 1901. They ha.d cost the II aslington Un,oit £200. The body of Henry Salter, fifty, a waiter, was found in the Avon two or three miles below Bristol on Saturday. On December 4th -Salter threw himself from Clifton Suspension Bridge into the river 350ft. below. A girl of twenty, named Gertrude Booth. P. Christmas-card maker, was found hanging from a hook in the kitchen ceiLng cf her Blackburn home on Friday night. She had been despon- dent owing to lack of work. When the two daughters of James Pye, an Orm kirk labourer, found their father late in arriving home on Friday night they went in search of him, and found hii body in an u-i- fenced brook. He was lying" face downwards in shallow water Riotous scenes marked the opening of th.' Croatian Diet at Agram, and there was a struggle for the chair between rival presidents. Mr. Charles Mover, president of the Western Federation of Miners, declares that he was as- saulted and deported from Calumet, Michigan, the scene of the Christmas-tree disaster, in which seventy-two people lost their lives. A young American in Paris who had lost all his money at the races hanged and shot himself in the Bois de Boulogne. An illuminated address signed by 253 journal- ists. including the editors of al! the great news- pa peri, was presented to Lord Burnham on the ocrtusion of his eightieth birthday. Ten military districts in Great Britain and some stations abroad will be affected by the proposal to transfer the fixed defences at ports and the control of the Royal Garrison Artillery from the Army to the Navy. A farmer living near Brentwood went to a picture palace in Brentwood on Saturday even- ing and learnt by a message thrown on the screen that a. fire had in his absence destroyed the stables and sheds at his farm. Mr. W. Rampling, of St. Osyth, Essex, on Friday dug up in the open from his garden one and a-half busihel of new potatoes of the :zc of pullets' eggs. The top were over 18in. high. Carmichael. the captain of the Hull Kingston Rovers, a Northern Union club, won a horse, trap, and harness, valued at < £ 60. in a Christ- mas draw, tickets for which were 2s. each. Dr. Weeks, Vicar of St. John's^ Lowestoft, has announced to his parishioner# that owing to the action of the sea air and winter gales the fabric of the church is ciumbiing away, ard that at. least £ 800 is required to save the tcwer and spire. Clifford Ernest Deacon, an engine-driver, aged thirty, of Rotherham, was killed on Satur- day morning at the Main Colliery, Cajiklow. whilst engaged in: shunting wag-gorts. He wcje knocked down and run over by the engine he had just alighted from. While hunting with the Crawley and Hor- sham Hunt on Saturday Mr. Austin Bevan, only son of Mr. B. Y. Bevan, of Cuckfield, a member of the well-known banking firm of Barclay and Co., met with a serious accident. In taking a jump his horse fell upon him, and he was injured internally A verdict of found drowned was returned 01 a South Monaghan inquest on Thomas Free- man, who returned to his native place on Christ- mas morning from Glasgow. lie was taking a short "cut" to a relative's house and fell into a boghole during a blinding snowstorm. Frederick Williams, a farmer, of Griffitin- town. Monmouthshire, died on Saturday after swallowing his false teeth during sleep. After occupying the position for twenty-four years, Mr. E. R. Pease will at the end of the present year relinquish the secretaryship of the Fabian Society, and be succeeded by Mr. W. Stephen Sanders, who has acted as organising secretary for some years. William Collins Cook, a well-known gentle- man of Boston, U.S.A., was paying a holiday visit in England when he was taken ill on Christmas Day and died the same evening. He was formerly proprietor of Phe Priory Hotel, W skall. He had taken rooms in the hotel, and died in his old home. Since the middle of September Germany has taken 394,5S0 boxes of fresh herrings from Lowestoft, each containing about 500 iish, and Germany and Russia have been sent 384,580 bar- rels of salted herrings, each containing from I 600 to 8GO fish Both totals are new records. Four hundred and nineiy-five years 13 the total of thl1 ligC8 of the cr-w of the Lowest; ft fishing-boat Primrose, of which the oldest hand is B. Grimble, who cn Christmas Day war. 80. The other hands are 73, 63, 61, 60, and W respectively. The skipper is 55, but the oook is oulv sa.

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MA.RKETS. LONDON CORN, MONDAY.—ENGLISH WHKA* —Ti-ado was slu«c?i.sh, despite a good attend ance, ;;iid prie«>s w.-re pinetically unchang-NI '.If the week White miKinir descriptions ronget up to S3- and red, up to 35s. Cd. per qr. FORFH;N W HEATS. — Conditions were slow without much trade to test values; bur th, letter, as a rule, held at last. Monday's love's: Xo. 1 S5.i. 6d.: No. 2 ditto, 35s. es ship: Indian. 37s. 6d upw.Ti-ds: f{'i>:ia/i, :;2: upwa.rd.. landed. L\l7.E -,Tr:.de Wit" quiet, und sellers were ill elimd to sirf.II concessions, prices bejal1 3d. down, as a rule: Plate, 24s. 6d. landed; Odessa, 23, 0d. landed. v,as hesitating-, with an occj»-:ion»!ly easior tone, but the decline was hardly quotable on the week: nates, 16s. 9d. upwards: Darmbian, 16s. 6d. upwards; heavy Russians. 22., Cd. upwards landed. BARI.EY.—Thine was a light inquiry, and, de- spite the cold weather, prices were not firm for grinding and feeding lots; South Russian, 20s. 6d. landed. Malting and brewing barleys mot very quiet, support at late rates: English, 32s. to 42s.: Hungarian. 34s 6d. to 42s.; brew- ing Chilian. 32s.: Ouchak and Anatolian, 38s. 6d. to Mi. Dannbian. 24s. 6d. to 28?. per 448ib. BEAXS AND PF.A.S.There was a small trade at stpud" rates. LONDON FLOUR, MONDAY.—The market was dull, hokday influences still being opera- tive to Foitte extent., but there was no quotable decline to note: English Town-made Patents, 278. 6d. to 29s. 6d.; ditto Country-made, 25s. tc 27s.; American Patents, 26s. 6d. to 28s. 6d.; ditto Bakers', 24s. to 26s. per sack. LONDON CATTLE, MONDAY.—Beasi entriee on to-day's market numbered 930, an increase of 790 compared with last Monday. Trade, though s low, remained very firm, with high prices asked for fine bullocks: Scotch, 5s. 4d. tc 5s. 6d.: Devons, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 4d.; Herefords, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 4d. Norfoiks, 5s. 2d. to 5s. 4d.; Irish. 4s. 6d. to 4s. lOd. Fat cows were quiet at 3s. 10d. to 4s. 2d., fat bulls 3s. 8d. to 4s. Five milch cows were a rather nominal market. Two thousand seven hundred and sixty sheep were penned in the market, an increase of 2,350. Trade ruled firm with prices tending in sellers' favour: Best Down tegs, 6s. 8d. to 7s.; best half-breds, 6s. to 6s. 4d.; best Down ewes, 4s. 4d. to 4s. 8d. per stone. LONDON MEAT, MONDAT.-Trade light; supplies moderate: Beef, English, 4s. 2d. to 4s 6d.: American, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 2d.; Scotch, 4s 6d. to 5s. 4d.; Argentine hindquarters, 3s. 8d. to 4s. Mutton, English wethers, 48t 8d. to 5s. 4d. ewes. 3s. 8d. to 4s. Scotch ewes, 3s. 8d. to 4s. tegs, 5s. 2d. to 6s.: New Zealand, 2s. 8d. to 3s. 4d.; New Zealand. 3s. 6d. to 3s. 10d. Veal, 4s. 8d. to 6s. Pork, 4s. 4d. to 5s. per stone. LONDON PROVISIONS, MONDAY.—Butter quzt-t: Danish, 130s. to 134s.; Normandy, 118s. to 130,: Australian, 100s. to 120s.; New Zea- land, 122s. to 130s. Russian, 90s. to 114s. per stone. Cheese firm: Canadian, 66s. to 70s.; Dutch, 60s. to 68s. per cwt. Bacon steady: Irish, 60s. to 76s.; Continental, 50s. to 74s. per cwt. Hams steady: American, 64s. to 76s. per cwt. Fggs firiti. LONDON POTATO, MONDAY.—Trade ruled auiet for good supplies as follows: Lincolns, 55s. to 70s.: King Edwards, 60s. to 70s.; Kent& and Essex, 50s. to 65.: Bedfords, 55s. to 65s.; Blacklands, 45s. to 55s. per ton. BRADFORD WOOL, MOXDAY.—There was a better tone about the market to-d-my, "d as a result of a covering movement a considerable weight of buiiriess, has been done. This has re- sulted in the price of merinoes being put up Ad., whilst cro^sbreds have been advanced a full id. There is also more doing in fleece wools, I but staplers so far find it difficult to make full prices. Mohairs are still neglected.

ufiaerneatn a ledge ot rock which a labourer was preparing to blast at the quarry at the en- trance to Alva Glen, Alva, near Stirling, has been found a s keleton about 5ft. in length. There was no cist or coffin, but a shell necklace 14in. in length was lying beside the skeleton. Electric lamps, instead of the oil ones now in use, are shortly to be supplied to the Metropoli- tan Police. The death is announced of Mr. Pandeli C. Ralli, senior partner in Messrs. G. C. Ralli, j cotton and general merchants, of Liverpool. Two children were burnt to death in a fire at Manor Farm, Boughton, Nottiiighanislii)-e, on Saturday. I have been a teetotaler for twenty months, and -only drink port and peppermint," said a witness at Stratford Policc-couit on Saturday. It has been decided to combine the offices of Suffragan Bishop of Buckingham IllHl that of Archdeacon of Buckingham, now heid by the Venerable E. D. Shaw. The Rev. Precentor Carpenter has been ap- pointed Archdeacon of Sarum. Greenock sugar refineries are doing a big business at present. Last week 58,000 bags of suga* arrived at Greenock, 46.000 beet from Fiume, and 18,000 cane. A youth, remanded at Newcastle on a house breaking charge, confessed to the nmgistriltet that he had spent the last four Christmas aRC New Year holidavs in orison.

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k c) T I A G RIC V LTVil AL XOTES. I BY A rillcriiJAL FA'l.MER. ) "1..l 1. I .I I', I ECONOMICS OF MILK PRODUCTION. A highly practical way of assisting farmers in conducting the milk production branch of their business has been adopted by the South E;-oio:-n Agricultural College, Wye. By arrangement with some twenty farmers it was agreed that, a recorder should vioit farms periodically during the year, arriving in time for J'H- afternoon milking; that the farmers should supply an accurate report, of the food consumed, give all assistance and any infor- mation possible, and in return would receive particulars of the cost of the feeding, and re- ceive information and advice as to the com- pounding of rations, and such other benefits as the College could confer upon those seek- ing information. The farmer acted as host for the night, and c;C;1t the recorder to the next farm which was marked out in the itinerary. Tlie information collected has been tukr- lated and discussed in a rep«ft in four sec- tions, the first three rela.ting respectively to winter, summer, and autumn feeding, and the fourth to the results for the complete year. The tabiM give the average yield of milk per cow i)-tr iby, the average cost of food per cow per day. and the average cost of food per gallon of milk, as well as the average daily rations of roots, hay, straw, grains, cake, &c\, so as to throw much light on the best methods of feeding. For the three months of full winter feeding —January. February, and ,Marchit, is shown that of twenty farms two produced milk at less than 5d. per gallon, four at from 5d. to 6d., two 6d. to 7d., seven 7d. to 8d., four 8d. to 9d., and one above 9d. The average cost of food per gallon of milk was 6'96d.. and on twelve of the twenty farms the cost was above the average. With regard to the farms in which the cost of food per gallon was above nfl" this is attributed to the ration being too costly or too heavy, considering the milk yield of the cows. On one farm where the yield was above the average the high cost of production was due to the excessive use of high-priced concentrated foods, and in two cases the use of large quantities of hay was the chief cause of high cost, while, in two others, the allowance of cake and meal is considered to have been too high in view of the quantities of other foods. Figures are given showing the immediate practical benefit of a change from careless to careful methods of feeding. & I THE CHOICE OF RATIONS. Tlle observations fall, however, to show that any one ration or type of rations is de- finitely related to a low cost of production. For instance, wet grains are often thought to be associated with cheap milk production, but of six farms producing milk at under 6d. per gallon, one used no grains at all, and of five producing milk at over 8d. per gallon all but one used grains, and on the one farm at which the cost was over 9d. per gallon, 401h. of grains was used per cow per day. Experiment and observation point more and more definitely to the conclusion that cheap milk production in winter depends more on attention to the quantity and propor- tion of the various foods in the ration, which should be suitable to the milk yield and other needs of the cows, than on the purchase of a particular cake or meal. As to the manage- ment of cows during the summer mon, tabulated information is also given showing how the cost of summer feeding is divided amongst pasture and aftermath, soiling crops, and purchased foods. Whether in winter or summer, caution ifl advised in the copying of any of the rations or methods of feeding which are described. A farmer should study and discuss his local con- ditions, and plan his own method of feeding, for the ration which is best and cheapest for one farm is not necessarily best and cheapest for every other farm. But many dairy farmers may improve their herds and in- crease their annual returtis if they pay atten- tion to the keeping of accurate records of the milk yield of every cow; calculation of the cost of feeding; elimination of unprofitable cows; and the selection of a properly- balanced ration and the feeding of all cows according to their milk yield. SWINE FEVER ADMINISTRATION. I In respon-se to the strong feeling on the present position of pig-keeping and the extent to which it is dependent on qwine fever re- strictions, the Council of the Royal Agricul- tural Society some little time a-goappointd a sub committee to consider questions arising out of reports on diseases of animals in the United Kingdom, and other questions con- cerned therewith. After hearing the evidence, the committee lian drawn the following conclusions and re- commendations That it is desirable that only persons of practical experience of pigs and disea-ses should be appointed as lay inspectors for the purposes of carrying out the provi- sions of the Swine Fever Orders. Uniformity of regulations should. be insisted upon in the areas of all local authorities in the country to which the general orders of the Board of Agriculture apply. If other counties would adopt a method of administration similar to that pursued in the Lindeey division of Lin- colnshire in connection with swine fever better results would, it is believed, be achieved. The views of several witnesses are strongly endorsed that all swine known to have bsen, or reasonably suspected of having been, exposed to the infection of swine fever should be situghtercd, an.d their owners com- pensated. ThiJ recotn mo n dati on of the De- partmental Committee that the whole of the expenditure incurred by the Board of Agri- culture in dealing with swine fever should be borne by the Exchequer is concurred in. Further investigation j-s thought to be de- sirable in connection with swine fever, and inquiries should be made by the Board of Agriculture as to the means by which swine fever has practically been eradicated from Denmark, and as to the serum treatment, which it is understood has been adopted with satisfactory results in Holland and Hungary. Finally, the opinion is expressed that as long as pigs from Ireland have access to English markets the regulations with regnrd to 6wine ¡ fever in Ireland should be tiie same me in England. APPLICATION OF LIME. I Land that is in need of lime should be dressed with it as soon aa possible; and if it is put on in a powder. thoroughly distri- buted, and kept near the surface it will not matter much a few years hence when it per- forms its work whether it was applied in autumn, winter, spring, or summer. I In the apDlica<)on of lime ar, a preventive < of finger-and-toe in turnips it has been found that a year usually elapses before lime exer- ciries its full effects on the soil. If the pre- vention of finger-and-toe be the object of liming the application must Dot be made in the winter or spring immediately preceding the sowing of the turnip crop, but must be applied at least twelve months -earlier; and if turnips are to follow oats lime should be applied to the In-nd before it is ploughed for oats. Lime rapidly sinks in the ground, and mtwt beeoms intimately blonded with the soil if it in to have H109 desired effect. If, there- tor- it be nlmiched in deenlv after OAtil ,th. ? :?'?. u: ?.fp?-?'n me s?r- f■ .»„ receive ?:?.??;;??t:?utifa?- p'—d h?-ro p'<?-?'ns;f-?-???.'?nd if th6 o*t e-'ubVo is a- the- earl'c.st oppor- fT'rtv. the plorgh run an inch (_'r?two t. ;???? ???? ? ??? ?.?j be h-?e''? th<?.T!r.? a!]- exert, -is in- I f'.on('(' 'J:' the S()'J hI"w: ? thro-chout the w.?nt?r.v.-i;?. th' ?'pr??ct'Mi-.a?? f,. th l J. ¡" 6- l J. ) root cop will thoroughly incorp-rnK> it with the soil. An excellent time to apply lime to light land is in spring, after roots, on the surface of tlie freshly-ploughed la;:d which is abont to be sown with oats and seods. Grass land should be dressed with lime in autumn, when the fields ar, bare and grazing is of small value. The earlier it is done at that season the more chance there is of escaping the rams, which might turn powder into a paste, a.nd tlie more likely is it to yield a result in the next set-sori.

REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. The Christmas holidays enabling a good many London workers to revisit their native counties showed them as fine a promise in the fields of autumn-sown wheat as even the very oldest could remember. The catch ciops are also very lusty and full, and thus provide a most useful supply of green food. A good deal of manure has been carted on to the land, while ditches have been cleaned and hedges attended to. England no longer presents that dilapidated husbandry which marked the later Victoria.n era. There is not enough capital embarked in culture, but things are much better than of \ore. In one thing only is there no improvement. Farmers continue autumn after autumn to thresh grain in mild, damp weather, and to hurry it upon unwill- ing, or at least apathetic, markets. A policy of holding corn until there has been a fort- night's frost round the stacks is much wanted. There has been next to no business done since the 23rd, and the gradients of home- grown corn are much as before that date. The home counties show the best wheat aver- agc-s and London is the best English market for oats, but barley is depressed in London, the Thames Valley, and the South-West. and does not command in Kent the accustomed prices which so frequently put Canterbury at the head of the week's barley markets for rural Britain. Seed oats are in some request in the South; Garton's especially show signs of an early inquiry, and in the Essex and Suffolk markets, King's. The demand for splitting beams is good. and the trade in aJI articles sold ready prepared for use is a growing one.—Mark Lane Express. CURRENT PRICES OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK LANE. LONDON FLOTIR. (Cash ex Town MilL) Top Price n.a per 280 lb. 3116 Town Whites. 29/6 Town Households a. 26'6 No. 2 25/0 Hungarian Prooess 34/0 Best American London Ground „ 28/6 London Standard, 80 per cent. 27/0 COUNTRY FLOTJR. Cash at London Terminus.) Best Price p«r 280 lb. 26/6 Country Standard, 80 per cent. 25/6 Good Patents 24/6 Straights, Good 23/6 Low Class 21/6 Roller Whites .a 22/6 Stolle-Itiade 22/6 BRITISH GRAIN (OFF STANDS). a. S. Wheat, White "per 504 lb. 33 to 37 Red 11 32 to 36 Rivetts per 480 lb. 31 to 33 Barley Malting per 44SIt 32 to 36 Poultry 27 to 29 Feeding per 400It). 23 to 25 Malt, English, Best per 336 lb. 41 to 43 Fine 36 to 37 Ordinary 34 to 3G Scotch, Fine. 39 to 41 „ Ordinary 38 to 39 Brown .a „ 31 to 35 Black 31 to 35 oats, Cryst.allised. „ 33 to 37 Oats, Good Gartons, Old „ 23 to 24 11 New. 20 to 21 Tartary, Old 21 to 22 New 19 to 20 Winter, Old Black. „ 23 to 24 „ New 20 to 22 Old Grey „ 22 to 23 New „ 19 to 21 Common, New 18 to 19 Inferior. New „ 17 to 18 Beans, Pigeon, 1911 per 5321b. 52 to 54 191 2 „ 44 to 48 1913. 42 to 43 Winter, 1912 per 5321b. 35 to 37 1913..a 33 to 34 Spring, 1912. per 5041b. 36 to 38 1913. 34 to 36 Peas, Marrowfats, Fine New per 5041b. 93 to 94 Sound New S8 to 90 Pa.rtridge, Fine 37 to 39 Common. „ 35 to 37 Maple, 1912 per D04 lb. 35 to 36 "1913 „ 35 to 38 Dun 1912 34 t0 35 or 1913 „ 33 to 35 Rye, Fine per 4801b. 25 to 27 Poor .1 22 to 24 Tares, Spring, 1912..a a.. per 5321b. 41; to 50 Fine, 1913 11 40 t0 42 Common, 1913 33 to 36 Winter, 1912 45 to 46 Fine, 1913 40 to 44 Common, 1913 „ 32 to 38 Gores, 1911 96 to 108 „ 1912 80 to 88 1913 „ 72 to 80 Buckwheat, Norfolir per 4001b. 31 to 32 Linseed, Lincolnshire. per 4241b. 53 to 56 Rapeeeed, Best New per 41<jlb. 70 to 74 Common 11 66 to 68 Mustardsned, Brown per 4481b.96 to 108 White 88 to 96 Comrnoa „ 72 to 74 CMMyaeed.Esaex per 4641b. 80 to 88 -M ark Lane Express.

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